Roll, Bap, Cob, Barm or Breadcake? Britain's Most Divisive Word

The question, as everyone in the survey sees it

What do you call a small, round piece of bread for one person?

Imagine it is plain and served beside a meal or used for a sandwich.

• Roll
• Bun
• Bap
• Cob
• Barm
• Batch
• Breadcake
• Teacake
• Something else

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Who says what

Each accent profile in the survey has an expected answer to this question. Where a profile allows more than one answer, the region genuinely varies.

Why this question is in the survey

Vocabulary questions like this one are the fastest way to place a speaker, because the answer is a single conscious word choice rather than a sound people cannot hear in themselves. They also travel: a word that splits England into five regions often splits North America into three quite different ones. Every answer is stored with a coarse map cell for the town you grew up in, and a region is coloured in once at least two people there have answered.

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